just accepted the job offer of my dreams. It was great, paid $38/hr full benefits! The work is a combination of physical and technical, and the cherry on the top was it was good MORAL work. I would have been working with private landowners to plant trees on their property, giving them timber harvesting power in the future plus fortifying the American timber trade instead of outsourcing for wood. Not to mention improving the local environment.

The thing is I'd be working with a non-profit and my position is funded by federal grants.

My job acceptance almost feel through with one executive order but I got lucky until Elon fricking MUSK commandeered the treasury payment system so there are effectively no resources to hire me. He took my job.

It's fricking heartbreaking. In 2 years I could have paid off my student loans and had a down payment for a house if I had saved like mad. Now I'm stuck making $20,000 a year living paycheck to paycheck. And I don't think anybody understands what an opportunity like this is for some poor kid who grew up in a rotten trailer in Appalachia to have had. Frick.

>Elon Musk--and I mean this genuinely--is a national security concern who should be deported and permanently banned from travel to our country. He doesn't belong here. This is not his country. He can get the frick out if he wants to steal from real Americans, which he is not.

>Sounds great but that's not true. Basically Musk came here on a student visa for Stanford, never went to one day of school, then just stayed. Then later he got naturalized via some Affirmative Action thing for Rich people, but the rule is you are supposed to wait for this process in your home country, but Musk defrauded the United States by staying here. Immigration fraud has no statute of limitations. We can deport this crook if we get the will!

>Oh, there will be plenty of jobs. Hope you like picking fruit in 100-degree heat for $3 an hour...

Amazing thread attempting to create a narrative with 40k upkongs and just 900 comments, so you know it's legit.

Comments are mostly as expected: Yeah, but Amazon is cheaper, ships faster, and has ez returns.

Note: Amazon doesn't make much on it's retail ops anymore, so they probably dgaf if people shop there or not.

Notable zero-pointers

2 weeks later no package arrives, no answer from support, regret not using reliable Beszos

Amazon is Amazon for a reason

Yeah but usually there products are marked up 25% compared to the Amazon listing so bezos gets my money🤷.

Nah I usually want the shit I ordered faster than 1-3 business months

The Pivot attempt and rebuttal

The main difference is Amazon offers free shipping and free hassle free returns. Other retailers charge you to return products you order from them and usually charge you shipping to get them

fyi hassle free returns = products go directly in the garbage (cheaper than sorting through the products) and Amazon bakes the cost into higher prices for everyone due to the high volume of returned items

FYI the exact same thing happens when you return it to the manufacturer.

The only difference is that it's substantially easier to return a product to Amazon vs most manufacturers.

!coons

🧵1/19 DeepSeek lied about it's costs.

DeepSeek R1's training did not actually cost only $6 million, that figure was an incomplete and selective representation of the costs. They also have access to around 50,000 Hopper GPUs.

Here's proof.👇

— tetsuo.ai - e/acc (@7etsuo) February 4, 2025

Wildcard Thread, Divisional Thread Regular Season MVP betting is still open.

NFC is Commanders @ Eagles Sunday Jan 26 3:00 PM Eastern

AFC is Bills @ Chiefs Sunday Jan 26 6:30 PM Eastern

Of the earlier bets we had 14 teams and 7 teams have been trimmed down to 4 and 2 options

For the 14 team free for all bet for a pot of 186 bets/37,200 coins

AFC for 88 bets/17,600 coins

NFC for 115 bets/23,000 coins

pings: !mensfootball !goomble !goomblers !bets @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

I know, that's a lot of losers! However, here's a bonus chance to recuperate some of those loses or for winning chads to double down on their sports wisdom. The 5th bet here & 3rd bet in the games below is just for me to add bonus money. If you click it you are throwing your money away and/or are a self-less patron of gamblers.

Of the 4 remaining teams Who will win the Super Bowl

Enter BetChiefs - 171 bets

Enter BetBills - 91 bets

Enter BetEagles - 93 bets

Enter BetCommanders - 59 bets

Enter BetDON'T CLICK THIS - 69 bets

closed

Foda-se a base militar, mas só pela fala de tirar o Brasil dessa porra de BRICS já ganhou meu voto

Democrat activist Olivia Julianna is threatening to go on a hunger strike until USAID is restored. pic.twitter.com/PsggeTHvaq

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) February 6, 2025

🍗🍗🍗 pic.twitter.com/Ynh1qy1OuP

— ThatOneGuy55 (@Tesla7771) February 6, 2025

america “joking” about invading canada is kind of like if a man and a woman were alone on a yacht and he joked about raping her

— zinnia (village retard) (@zinniaa_3) February 5, 2025

🐸 pic.twitter.com/VHvJkYTyfm

— Wildlife Uncensored (@TheeDarkCircle) February 6, 2025

Enter BetTikTok will be sold to an American company and continue operating. - 59 bets

Enter BetIt will be sold to a non-US company and @hACAppy_2025 will win at slots, namaste - 11 bets

Enter BetTikTok will be kill - 89 bets

Enter BetTim Apple will bravely refuse to remove TikTok from the Apple store, in bold DEFIANCE of the kkkorupt kkkapitalist kkkrooks running the so-called "United" States - 9 bets

Enter BetIt will be sold to and promptly renamed TixTox - 3 bets

!remindme 24 hours "close the toktik"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !asians

Closed.

I don't really know why I'm venting my frustrations here, but I guess this is one of the only real pro-Ukraine communities on the internet I am aware of,

sure sure nowhere is pro Ukraine sure sure

the dejenerate podcast - how to become talented 14:54

• it's been cold in the domicile. He took off his outerware while cooking, but then he got too fricking cold. He's been getting into brushing his teeth lately. He then describes how the proteins and enzymes and shit causing him to warm back up cause feelings of melancholy and shit because there's not enough enzymes left to produce dopamine

• 0:50 He shows off his pokemon shirt . It came with another t-shirt that was like brain break

• 1:30 He asked in the fam chat what their favorite pokemons were. Mum doesn't know and jinxsisters didn't respond.

• 1:55 Actual facts, Jinxthinker played pokemon in the past but it didn't produce orgasmic feelings because they're animals. Fact is Jinxthinker is highly skilled at all video games

• 2:20 He relapsed on Elden Ring for 15 minutes . He had the revelation that people who think they're good are often playing with high latency and would get r*ped on low latency.

• 2:45 He was watching an EU IV stream and the streamer's country was being r*ped.

• 3:00 He found a libertarian guy (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-48830780) with a foot fetishist who went to the cinema to touch children. He's Hitler's favorite Nazi. We examine his ghostly apparition and disfigured mouth/nose. He also has a cochlear implant because he's deaf. Dumbo might be significant.

• 4:30 Jinxthinker has never delved into foot fetishism, it's on the same level as libertarianism.

• 5:00 Goes into the genealogy of libertarianism/western civilization. This is somehow connected to foot fetishism and Dumbo.

• 6:00 Explains how you can't frick a foot. Discusses breast size.

• 7:05 More AI pictures, with goth woman licking feet as an experiment. It's okay if the woman is being humiliated and the foot isn't the essential sexual/arousing element.

• 7:55 Choses a song so he can practice being a good singer. Needs to change the song because this is too hardcore; he's also good at rapping.

• 8:40-10:50 Changes the song finally. It's the singer that sounds like he has a speech impediment and drones that he likes.

• 10:50 it's okay to jerk off to aliens if they're female and have a vagina, right.

• 11:00 He talks like a southerner about father time. People age in a chronological fashion. Here's the deal, children are ugly but they become better like a caterpillar -> butterfly transformation. This makes libertarians angry when father time turns children to adults. This is how you know libertarians are r-slurred, because you can love to adult women your whole life.

• 13:10 One of the badass characters on Lost smokes, but Jinxmother says jinxthinker isn't allowed to smoke. Oh well.

• 13:40 Shows off his empty Monster cans. Talks about how it's cool to put the empties in your bed under the duvet when you're sleeping and crush them in your bed. (This reminded me of Jimmy on King of the Hill who wants to smash the cans)

• 14:00 Goes back to Father Time beating libertarians without missing a beat. He heard someone talking about ??? and it's r-slurred; somehow this is related to selling coke in Hogwarts like Breaking Bad

!jinxthinkers If any of you can figure out what that last minute was about, that would be great.

It all started when some nazi chud made this racist post:

Thankfully he was swiftly banned by the 24/7 online shemale jannies:

But G*mers not having it, so they did the only thing they could think of, spam the entire forum with the same message like toddlers:

Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement.

"The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so," Musk wrote. "Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long."

Now generally, at Ars Technica, it is not our policy to write stories strictly based on things Elon Musk says on X. However, this statement was so declarative, and so consternation-inducing for NASA, it bears a bit of explication.

lmao bullshit, Ars loves to sneed about everything Elon does; it's basically TMZ but only covering Elon.

Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced here—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—are not stranded on the International Space Station.

The astronauts are clearly stranded as has been covered extensively over the last year by even leftie organisations:

NPR also released an article insisting that the astronauts aren't stranded - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump:

Ars comments are of course mad:

Why wouldn't the US government want to bring two stranded astronauts home? Why is this the top comment? What are you mad about?

They were meant to be there for eight days. The eighteen month stay was planned.

And yet they're still stranded there, curious. Why don't they just fly back home? They must want to be there.

The bottom two comments - note the guy who's had an account for 17 years.

!nonchuds !chudmoment !g*mers !goyim

>That's curtains, th-ACK!

>Pretty much. That is literally the dogshit writing dream te-ACK!

>Sucker Punch, insomniac, naughty dog and Santa Monica were some of my favourite studios. It's crazy how they have all fallen. I miss when gaming wasn't main stre-ACK!

ON THE LAST EPISODE OF THE GREAT NIPPONCAUST OF 2024-2025:

https://rdrama.net/post/303041/effortpost-culture-war-chimpout-cwc-32769

/r/games re- ACK!ts: https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iciwl6/sony_corp_shake_up_hiroki_totoki_named_corporate/

ReetardEra re-ACK!ts: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideaki-nishino-elevated-to-solo-ceo-role-at-sie-herman-hulst-remains-as-ceo-of-the-studio-business-group.1094379/

NeoStrags sneed: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sony-shake-up-hiroki-totoki-named-corporate-ceo-hideaki-nishino-elevated-to-sie-solo-ceo-herman-hulst-reports-to-nishino-now.1680154/

4chuds chudlebrating: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/701522090

Kiwiggers are also chudlebrating the return of glorious Nippon: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sony-hate-thread.87498/post-20448374

!g*mers !chuds !asians

I'm going to a party in Florida where I'll be wearing brown shoes and a belt - which would mean brown watch. However, I think the black watch is cooler and would rather wear that. Would you be opposed to putting the brown strap on the black watch or would that be tacky?

WOOP WOOP

This reeks of "Freedom Fries."

I thought freedom fries was the dumbest thing i've ever seen out of washington... well until now. 4 more years of this BTW.

Fun fact about World War One, the US started calling Sauerkraut by the name of Liberty Cabbage. We don't have fresh ideas.

The Gulf of Liberty Cabbage

Welp, I know which name I'm going with.

I'm going with Gulf of Mexico, with Gulfy McGulfface being a close second option.

I'm in NZ. Google maps says its Gulf of Mexico (because that's its fricking name).

>Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

>will change

Hopefully, it's only 4 more years.

if we're not in some kinda post apocalyptic scenario in 4 years i'll be pleasantly surprised

That's the shit that has me up all night.. Fricking lunatics have escaped the asylum again, but this time they're prepared. This ain't "Joker 2" muthafricka!

Four years, give or take a /r/collapse

This was only the first week. ugh

4 more years so far...

Yup. Just the first week. Im so sick of the darn trump show and it doesn't seem there is a way to unsubscribe, disconnect, turn the channel, unplug the tv etc. His brand of stupidity is fricking everywhere.

4? Try 8 when vance gets elected

Hopefully you'll still have a country that resembles the US in 4 years.

They ruined the Dixie Chicks' career because they spoke out. Turns out we should trust some musicians for our foreign policy.

Just because some are sometimes right doesn't mean we should generally trust musicians.

The overwhelming majority of musicians are not geopolitics experts, or at all informed on political issues.

The fact that we constantly expect celebrities to chime in on issues they have no expertise in is one of the reasons politics is so toxic and polarised today. It's contributed to the dumbing down of political discourse.

But also, being a musician does not disqualify you from having and expressing political opinions, nor does it guarantee that you are politically illiterate.

The world might be a better place if pop artists were more inclined to sing about politics than vague romantic notions.

real big "shut up and dribble" vibes coming from that dude

: Rich people are out of touch and have no idea about reality or what the common people are going through! Guillotine them all!

: Actually, more celebrities should lecture people on how to be hecking good human beans, after all they all agree with me. Tee hee!

The funny part to me is that "America" isn't even the name of our country, it's the name of the continent. We're the United States. 'Gulf of the Americas' kind of makes sense, but has nothing to do with the United States of America.

I could see that if it was the gulf of USA but Mexico is part of America

And everyone will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico

In Florida we just call it "the gulf".

Not any more - we'll be sure to add "of Mexico" for clarity from now on.

Seems confusing. How do you know which gulf you're talking about?

What an absolutely brilliant question. Your mother must be so proud of you. Do you go poo poo on your own too? Awwwwwww.

Woosh

Awwww, not yet? You'll get there.

They are so angry they just attack each other for no reason

Everyone who matters will call it the Gulf of Mexico, at least.

I hate to break it to you but everyone matters, not just those that agree with you. That was made very evident with the election. Just because in your mind you can just tell yourself other people don't matter, they actually do. And sadly, their decisions can frick up the world for you.

I think he/she might mean those in communities that actually deal with the Gulf like those in the scientific communities, not just the average layman.

Sure, that's perfectly possible. However, that doesn't counter my point at all. The entire idea that some matter, and some don't, is how we ended up in this mess in the first place. It turns out, everyone actually does, and if you don't believe that, your world can get pretty fricked up by that disbelief.

Give up brother this place is like a blindfolded circlejerk

Leftists purity checking each other over things that aren't even disagreements

Americans don't matter to me any more.

What irrelevant country are you from?

The great thing about American exceptionalism is that it can never have any negative consequences of any kind. Good luck with that!

I will. Frick that nazi. Gulf Of Mexico.

Oh so you like deadnaming now, interesting.

PM Trudeau of Canada should issue an order renaming the USA to "South Canada". Let's see Google change it for Canadian viewing.

This is exactly the kind of high-level international trolling we need. Show Trump for the pathetic man-child that he is.

: So you guys agree that we should be same the country then!

But _I_ don't desire they use that name, and I'm American. Can we, like, petition Google to not be punks who do what the totalitarian wants?

Lmao. The Google CEO was front row at Trump's inauguration. Best of luck

Maybe constantly bitching about CEOs/rich people/important people even when they're on your side could have some unfortunate consequences?

Californian checking in. It's the Gulf of Mexico.

>Google will change

Google is the scariest of all tech companies. They are essentially our library. They have the ability to manipulate the narrative on a different level. For the vast majority they are our dictionary, our encyclopedia, our Library of Alexandria. They are THE reference for day to day life. Our last arbiter of truth.

We are already aware that weighted searches are for sale.. but them kissing the ring is scarier than social media techs doing so. By my estimation, at least.

That's why I periodically download wikipedia

"Here at Google, we deepthroat the whole boot"

Stop being anti-corporations and maybe they'll like your side too

Why do people think this ends when trump ends? It doesn't. It's being set up so it doesn't. We will get Vance, who is more cognizant and has the potential to be worse.

True but, I don't think anyone but Trump has what it takes to rile up the morons enough to get out and vote.

It's comments like this that make me think you people still do not understand the magnitude of this election.

Every single lever of power in the government that matters is now firmly controlled by people who are perfectly fine cheating in broad daylight with a violent mob to maintain that power.

They are not going to let themselves be voted out of that power.

Maybe choose an actual candidate next time instead of an identity checklist?

I think his cult followers can absolutely be manipulated, post Trump Death, into turning on themselves. I don't think they're accept the Charisma vacuum as the next leader.

I think the internal MAGA civil war will tear the movement apart.

You just have to hope that they haven't destroyed democracy too much post that point.

Like how you guys lost the election?

People want to believe that Trump is pulling the strings. They don't want to believe that there's a group of people putting EOs on his desk to sign without reading

Fricking wingcucks lmao

Now factor in the very best healthcare that money can't buy.

COVID would have killed him if he wasn't POTUS. Sad this dude keeps escaping death. It's always the evil ones that live the longest. :/

Even the best medicine can't do miracles.

Ah, frick, who am I kidding, modern medicine is a miracle. We're fricked.

[Karma] Doesn't exist.

I mean… it does. You'll see. And even if you don't believe, when bad things happen, I can assure you us real Americans will be cheering

I'm a real American too but I don't believe karma is an actual thing. If it were true, why would such monstrosities be done to innocent people over the course of history? What did they ALL do to deserve slavery/torture/murder/r*pe/genocide?

I meant real in the sense cheering for karma to happen to dotard. You are also assuming you know exactly how something you don't believe in actually works. Bold assumption

Do you know exactly how it works then?

I know what I believe, but is it what religious adherents believe? No, don't think so.

How is that any different than what I said?

Cause I think my version is real or is to me at least. You said none of it is real.

It's real to me that it doesn't exist.

Hippie with exotic beliefs meets edgy reddit atheist. The argument goes past this point btw

Regarding the BMI, I get the impression he's been taking Ozempic or something. He seems to have been slowly thinning out

Maybe but elderly people often thin out for a variety of reasons, most of which are not good.

Yeah that's usually a sign of deaths door

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The Heritage Foundation, federal authorities say.

Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts (), was found with a knife and two Molotov cocktails on Monday afternoon near the south door of the Capitol, U.S. District Court records say.

"I'd like to turn myself in," English said after he approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer, the records say.

Officers detained and searched him and found he had a folding knife, a lighter and two 50-mililiter bottles of vodka with a gray cloth attached to the top.

English told officers he went to the Capitol to kill Bessent, who was being confirmed as Treasury secretary. He said he had more Molotov cocktails in his car.

He said he left home on Sunday with the intention to kill Hegseth, who he called a "Nazi," and Johnson, as well as burn down The Heritage Foundation. He said he aimed to "depose" the officials and send a message, records say.

As English headed to D.C., he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent's confirmation hearing. He then altered his intended target, the records say.

Read more @nbcwashington

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